#sublime

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#cannot #duty #language #less #more

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it. ↗

— Jane Porter

#always #apt #astonished #capable #conduct

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#cannot #duty #language #less #more

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. ↗

— James K. Polk

#beloved #beloved country #borders #contentment #country